Anxy Birds (with unnecessary drama )
A story of life as part of a bird family…
Samantha Humphreys
Art, Photography, Inspiration & Education
Tag: expectations
February 19, 2017
March 31, 2016
The Walk
The Walk, Acrylic & Ink on Plasterboard, Samantha Humphreys (2016)
This piece is a narrative from memories of my Grandma combining both early and latter recollections.
December 30, 2014
What Am I Like?
Like the Emperors and leaders of past times, we like to project a carefully constructed identity to our public rather than our real self. Only now, we can all do it, we don’t need to commission an artist to do the job for us. We use the tools available to us and we carefully sculpt out the self portrait we want to project.
July 27, 2014
Social Interaction
A crossover between real life and social media interactions, reality becomes distorted, who sees what? Others, maybe even strangers begin to have an input in our lives! Do we control it or have we lost control?
May 11, 2014
Seriously?
Life is so unfair…. with age comes wisdom, sometimes!
March 29, 2014
No Further Searching
We have developed a dependency on those devices that provide us with all we need to know about the world and they are all we need to let the world know about us. How about if there was nothing more than what was contained within the edges of the box we hold in our hand, no further searching, no further discovering….
February 13, 2014
What If?
My recent series “What If?” has been receiving some attention in the press lately, due to the inclusion of three of the images in the Speaking Out Exhibition at Embrace Arts, University of Leicester.
The series is based on the theoretical question of “What if we were to teach our children at an early age about the harsh realities that face some?”
Clearly, we wouldn’t dream of exposing children to such things and my work is by no means intended to be used as an educational tool but by using Barbie dolls, an iconic toy that oozes perfection, I am demonstrating that life for some is by no means perfect. The series of ten images also explores insecurity, loneliness, illness and addiction.
February 6, 2014
#ineedyourapproval
Do we need to document our life in this way?
Samantha Humphreys 